Tag Archives: Law Firms

Many Virginia law firms would have to switch their accounting methods and pay taxes on income before the money actually is collected, if a proposed federal tax reform makes its way through Congress. The proposal – not yet incorporated in ...

The Virginia State Bar’s Standing Committee of Legal Ethics has jumped into the 21st century with a new draft opinion. It’s a Legal Ethics Opinion on one of those small but significant details left over from a firm break-up: What ...

Amid finger pointing between a law firm and six departing lawyers, a Richmond judge authorized the city sheriff’s office to “employ all reasonable measures necessary” to permit the departing lawyers to retrieve client files from the firm. That Jan. 21 ...

Six associates departing en masse from a Richmond personal injury law firm this month claimed the firm owner locked them out of the law firm’s buildings and blocked them from their computer calendars and case files. The departing lawyers obtained ...

The Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys elected Richmond lawyer John Owen as its new president when it held its annual meeting in Roanoke last month. Owen, a partner at Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman, becomes the fourth lawyer from that ...

A Virginia law firm is trading charges in court with two former associates after the pair jumped ship and started their own competing law firm. The Boleman Law Firm PC filed suit Oct. 10 demanding $2.35 million from former employees ...

Lawyer defections often come with hurt feelings, a sense of betrayed loyalty and bitter recriminations. They also come with ethical snares that can lead to distracting and costly litigation just when both sides need to get on with business. One ...

For a long time now, the ampersand has served as the go-to symbol for linking a law firm’s name partners, but that time-honored standby is being usurped by what some say is a hipper icon. “The ampersand is so 20th ...

Richmond’s BrownGreer PLC – a law firm that provides services to handle mass claims – is sharply disputing criticism of its work as part of the awarding of compensation to victims of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf ...

Over three years ago President Obama signed into law both The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. Together the laws are commonly referred to as Health Care Reform. While a number ...